Template name won't be accepted

[123 (Taras)]

The example in this post seemed very familiar to me (notably the use of now().ctime()[:3]) and then I remembered why:

Add a friendly name template to the new template sensor format

I believe your wish is already granted (with one hitch). If I do this: - name: "testing_{{ now().ctime()[:3] }}" unique_id: 'just_a_test' state: "{{ now().ctime() }}" I get this: [Screenshot from 2021-08-11 14-13-39] However the hitch is I have lost control of the entity’s object_id. It has been automatically set to template_just_a_test (a concatenation of “template_” and the unique_id). To regain control of it, I can modify it via the UI (not via its configuration). From this: …

What Petro said; the name is generated only when the Time Trigger triggers (at midnight).